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THE DUBLIN POST.
DUBLIN, GA., MAY 7, 1879.
Terras, $1.50 a year in advance.
Local Affaire.
Some cool May weather.
The Colville brings down freights
weekly.
“Safe” Blank Notes for sale at tills
office. t
The oat crop this year is not.
promising.
The Strnbing House, at Toombs-
boro, is A No. 1.
Sweet potatoes would find ready
sale in this martlet.
Mr. Ebeuezer Brown, of Macon,
was in town last week.
Mr. Joel E. Perry presents us a
first-of-May corn tassel.
The best blacksmith shop in Coch
ran is that of Mr. Robuck.
Judge Haynes made a trip to
Montgomery county yesterday.
Mr. J. J. Weaver has the finest
garden we have seen in Dublin.
Mr. Israel Johnson, the oldest
citizen of the county, is quite ill.
Prof. W. J. Hightower, of Mount
Vernon, was in town last Sunday.
T!id turpentine business at this
place'seems to be in a thriving con
dition.
McVay & Choate are selling flour
at the rate of a car haul every two
weeks.
Carhart & Curd, as ever, now have
the finest and bpst stock of-hard ware
iq Macon. ’
In ordering articles advertised in the
Post, please mention where you saw the
advertisement.
Messrs. M. A’. Outlaw and W. W.
Mixon,of Johnson county, were in
town last week,
Mr. Wash Baker’s.is still the best,
place in Cochran to put qti a damper
when yon tire dry.
Maas & Bro. are building a fine
brick store with brick warehouse ut-
taehed, in Cochran.
Messrs. J< E. Hightower, II. P.
Howard tfnd .John Pndgct left for
jljhtcon last MimcLiy.
Read the card of R. II. May & Co.
They will give you buggies, wagons,
&e., at bed rock figures,
For doors, sash, blinds, lends,
paints', p,ils, &c., &c., go »to T.
Guernsey's. -See his card.
Mr. Henry Sutton luis removed his
,family to Eastman, whore he is en
gaged in building ti church.
Married on, the. 4th inst., by the
Rev. W. S. Ramsay, Mr. A. G.
Hobbs to Miss Annie Robinson.
Rev. David G. Daniel, of Liberty
county, preached a very impressive
sermon in Dublin last Sunday.
Wo Ipid down sGissqi s .and pencil
lust week, shook off grim care and
took a four*days’ trip, to Macon.
Mr. Joe Padget says the grass is
bidding fair to get the advantage of
the farmers in his neighborhood.
Mrs. Elijah Blackshear has ‘‘ripe”
squashes, and other vegetables ahead
of any we have seon this season.
Read the notice of Mr. John M.
Hightower, Treasurer of Johnson
coflnty, and bo governed accordingly.
The question is often asked, “what
Will become of the Perry women
now?” But eciio answers, “what ?”
Read the card of Jessop & Smith.
Their depot of machinery, plows,
hoes and other farming implements
is complete.
Mr. R. R. Jones informs us that
he killed eighteen moccasin snakes
last Saturday afternoon—mostly lit
tle fellows.
Mr. George Currell, Jr., assistant
bookkeeper for McVay & Choate, of
Oochran, was in town last week and
favored us with u call.
0
The best place in Macon to buy a
first-class suit of olothes, without
any danger whatever of getting bit,
is at Wiuship & Callaway’s.
On last Friday night n goose be
longing to Mr. B. B. Linder got to
flying around a little too recklessly
and alighted in the well, where she
had to swim around till next morn
ing when she was brought up to
terra firma.
A day seldom rolls round but one
or more good men send m their name
and money as new subscribers to the
Post.
Mr. J. M. Howard tells us lie
caught a twenty pound catfish last
week, the hook fastening his fishslnp
in the back of the head.
Two pickaninnies got into a fight
in the suburbs of town Sunday after
noon, and one of them got a knife
blade broken off in bis head.
For house-furnishing goods, stoves,
tin ware, crockery ware, china ware,
silver ware, &c., go to George S.
Obear’s—the leading house of that
kind in Macon.
David Ruwls, Esq., of Wriglits-
ville, came over on Mr. Crawford’s
mail hack last Monday. He reports
crops fine and farmers hopeful in
Johnson.
Master T. B. Hicks, now attending
school in Macon, took advantage of
last week’s holiday and came home
to see his fine lambs and Pennsylva
nia pups.
The City Hotel in Cochran is a
good house,—a place where hunger
will cease from troubling, and the
weary will find excellent beds on
which to rest.
Dublin now has a first-class watch
maker, and onr people need no longer
send off their work to Macon or other
distant points. See Mr. Jornigan’s
card and give him a call.
The mail to Tehuilte will probably
stop going by way of Wrightsville
the first of October next and go bv
Blaekshcar’s Mill, Buckeye, and Ir
win’s Cross Roads.
Mark[E».—On the 29th ultimo,
Mr. Geo. F. Graham to Miss Eliza
Keene, by Rev. Thos. Winhain.
On the 4t,h inst., Mr. Wm.« Full-
ford to Miss Mattie Hall.
On last Saturday afternoon about
4 o’clock a pistol was accidentally
discharged in the hands of Mr. John
Hall in Maddox’s bar, inflicting a
flesh wound iq his left, index finger.
Dr. Morgan is carrying a good
stock of drugs in Cochran, and par
ties who ,do their trading in that
place will find it. to their interest to
call on him for anything which they
may need in that line.
When the Twinilip mail route gets
into regular operation, the Poet will
come out on Wednesday evening
instead of .Wednesday morning, as
now, thus reaching subscribers on
t hat line hot from the press.
Blockaliear’s Mill Package.
It is now in order, since the mail
route by Blackslieur’s mill lias been
re-iistablished, to solid a package of
Posts to that office. Parties, there
fore, who wish their paper sent to
that office, will please notify us at.
once.
The Corbett Houso is not satisfied
to give the host fare, the sweetest beds
and tho most homo-like comforts of
any house in Macon, but secs to it
that guests, especially lady-guests
who desire to see the city shall, do
so to the best advantage and at the
least expense,
A fine lot of pictures, picture
frames, piannos, organs, pens, inks,
paper, toy goods, &c., at E. D. Er-
vine’s, and also at L. W. .Smith &
Co.’s, in Macon. They are respon
sible parties, and tlieir goods are as
represented in their cards. Picnic-
ers and others who visit Macon from
this section arc requested to call and
examine their goods.
The attentidu of onr readers is in
vited to the card of A. Reynolds &
Son, of Macon. These gentlemen
have been engaged in the foundry
business a lifo-time, and consequent
ly are masters of the trade. Their
patterns are all new, and they are
prepared to sell as low and on as
good terms as any foundry in the
State. Repairing of machinery a
specialty.
Lost Notes.
On the 26th of April last I lost
my pocket book in Dublin containing
the following described notes which
the Public are hereby warned against
trading for: One on T. W. Brantly
for $80.00; one on Geo. Monday for
5^0 lbs. good cotton; one on A. A.
Walker for 400 lbs. good cotton; one
on Daniel Pope for $30.00; one on
myself in favor of I). S. Blackshear
for $170.00, and several other small
notes. May 7th, 1879,
J. M. Hi’TCHrxaoN'.
The S. S. Picnic.
We were absent from town tho 1st
of May, consequently can speuk of
the Dublin Sunday school picnic only
second-hand. Parties who like sober
enjoyment speak of the affair as a
decided success; while some of the
younger bloods think the programme
was too formal and tame. But all
agree that the programme, such as it
was, was well carried out, and that
the dinner ivos excellent.
Go to Jones’ and buy one of those Safety
Lamps. Superior to any lamp in the mar
ket. If dropped or overturned, will extin
guish itself before reaching the floor.
Can’t smoke, don’t flicker, light brilliant,
destined to supersede all others. Extin
guished by touching a spring instend of
blowing, gives a light equal to thut of tho
$8.00 student’s lamp. Cheap as any other
amp. Old lamp howls may be reflttcd
with the improved burners, wicks aud
chimneys. Call and exemine for yourself.
W. B. Jones & Co., sole agents for
aprS-tf 1 Laurens and Johnson counties.
Tho Huwkinsville Dispatch is not
satisfied with the investigations made
by the Post in reference to tho origin
of the habit of calling the road to
llawkinsville the chicken road. It
has given out that the matter shall
not be considered as settled until
some one is interviewed from the
other end of the line. From all of
which we perceive that we shall be
under the painful necessity of win
ning another silk hut or two at tho
expense of the Dispatch before we
can get it to properly recognize tho
claims of the Post.
In our trip last week through
Laurens, Pulaski, Twiggs, Bibb and
Wilkinson wo noticed tlmt corn was
mostly “sided,” was looking well and
showed a good stand. Cotton plant
ed sinco the late heavy rains was
coming up well; that planted before
had to be plowed up and replanted.
The fruit crop scorns to bo doing
well and the papers throughout the
State are expecting a good crop.
But. our most experienced farmers
tell us that they fear the effocts of
the late frosts will be seen later in
summer. The fruit, they say, will
be-gummy and wormy and will drop
off.
Cochran.
In passing through Cochran
last
week we saw all the evidences of a
restless energy that pervades the soul
and spirit of the place. It was a
busy time with the farmers and but
few wore in town, but it is not nec
essary to be in Cochran on a rush
day to understand the genius of the
place. On every side you may read
the unwritten motto of the town—
Excelsior.. We called at the Enter
prise office,.where we found every
thing as orderly and as well conduct
ed as in any newspaper office we ever
visited. The editor, Dr. T. F. Wal
ker, we found to be a genial and
scholarly gentleman ami a wide
awake knight of the quill.
The Teiiiiillc Mail.
Mr. Billy Crawford of Wrightsville
got the contract for carrying the tri
weekly mail fropi this,point to Ten-
nille, via Blackshear’s mill and
Wrightsville. The mail will Jeaye
TenniHe on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays, arriving at Dublin on
the same days, aqd return to Tcn-
nille on Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays. Tins with the present
tri-weekly mail from Toombsboro
will give us a daily mail from the
Central road. Our post master, Mr.
Keen, informs us that the mail agents
on the Central road have been posted
as to this arrangement, and instruct
ed to deliver the Dublin mail on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
at Tcnuilie; and on Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays at Toombsboro.
So wo shall get our daily papers
every day.
Drain OIF the Fever.
Common sense, together with last
year’s fatal experience with malarial
fever in Dublin, makes it plain that
our City Fathers should lose no time
in properly draining the town.
Every marshy place and tadpole
pond within the incorporation should
be thoroughly dried at once. Alrea
dy tho fever has appeared in three
or four families, and, without prompt
action, we shull soon all be eating
quinine and bemoaning our folly and
neglect. The work should not be
put off a day longer. When the
.weather gets hot it will he loss dan
gerous to let the water stand than to
draw it off. Let the council retnem
her that procrantination will prove
the thief of health.
My. Dennis J/cLendon brings us
the first snap beans we have seen
this season.
Howards’ bar now bangs out the
best painted sign in town.
Mr. I. T. Keen contemplates a
trip to Florida in a few days.
The Central City.
We saw more of Macon and had a
more pleusant stay there last week
than over before; for which we are
largely indebted to Col. Corbett,
formerly a citizen of Dublin, but,
now engaged in other business in
Macon, us well as running tho Cor
bett House. Col. C. took ns behind
his Montreal stoed—the finest and
fleetest horse in Macon—and showed
ns over tho entire city. Mucon is
not so enterprising as Atlanta, at
least one doesn’t see so much rush
and ruilroad rattle os in tho Gate
city* but Macon is making a constant,
and substantial progress. There is
no shoddy or mushroom growth about
her.;;; It is not the custom to herald
everything done in tho city with u
grand flourish of trumpets. B™‘
that Macon lias been noislessly mak
ing a history of which any city might
be proud, hoi* institutions of learning
and charity, her churches, her park,
her royal residences and beautiful
homes will well attest.
Deep Planting for Corn.
V\ r e rode from Toombsboro last
Thursday with Mr, Seaborn Weaver
whoso remarks on the crops along
the road wore of more than ordinary
interest. And when we corno to re
member that Mr. Weaver raised the
second best corn made in the county
last year, his ideas on the subject, of
corn planting will be received as from
one entitled to speak with authority.
Wo noticed a good deal of corn plant
ed in a deep water furrow between
the beds. This plan Mr. Weaver
doem’t like. That bottom soil is
poor and the corn gets a slow start.
It is a mistaken idea that corn plant
ed thus will stand the drouth hotter;
for the roots will grow only near the
surface. In proof of this position he
recited the experiment of a neighbor
wlnl planted a hill of corn in a stump
iraftL,t t wo. fe.et,/lcep,■ udditrg soil grafl-
’naliy tij? level with the ground. It
made a, good stalk of corn, but, on
examination, he found the roots were
all as near the surface as those of the
other corn. lie thinks it best to
break broadcast and plant on levy!
ground. _
Died at her residence in Laurens county
Ga., on Thursday, 1st of May, Mrs. Mabel
Fuqua, wife of our esteemed fellow citizen,
Andrew A. Fuqua.
Deprived of both father and mother du
ring. tho same day and very nearly at the
same hour, at the tender age of seventeen
she was forced to seek shelter and sympa
thy from others. She found a kind friend
•and a safe counsellor in Mrs. John G.
Contes with whom she lived as a member
of the family until her marriage at the age
of twenty-three. The year previously site
united with the Poplar Spring Church and
lias since that tune been a faithful, humble
and zealous Christian. Site was removed
to the town of Dublin with her husband in
1834, and lias been for forty-five years one
of the most prominent and useful members
of the Dublin Baptist Church. She had a
severe attack of pneumonia two years ago,
which left her constitution shattered, aud
her general health impaired, so that there
was very little work for the fell destroyer
when in the guise of pneumonia lie made
n second visit to claim her us ids own.
81 ic was sick only one week: hut that week
was an age to the weary, anxious hearts of
kindred and loved ones who hovered over
her sick coucli to catch some faint gleam
of hope for her recovery. But no such
gleam ever came, sh.e gradually grew fee
bler, the pulse beat fainter and fainter, ’til
at last the silver cord was loosed, tho golden
bowl was broken, the wheel at. the cistern
stopped and her spirit returned to God who
gave it, in the sixty-eigth year of'her age,
the forty-sixth year oilier age to God, and
day of her murriage forty-
J
B. WOLFE,
Georgia.
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— DRAIiEll IN
FANCY DRY GOODS,
ORGANDY MUSLINS,
VICTORIA LAWNS,
FIGURED PIQUES,
NOTIONS AND HOSIERY,
JEANS AND DOMESTICS.
HATS, BOOTS & SHOES,
STAPLE & FANCY GROCERIES,
HARDWARE & FARMING IMPLEMENT'S,
CROCKERY, TINWARE, ETC., ETC.
Phase don't ask for Credit without offering good paper us collateral,
for it helps me to credit and to do it on good terms. ifeK
aplO-tf
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SOLUBLE SEA-ISLAND GUANO
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HE west KAim&its PBONOUNCK ti* thw BEST Feiitiuzeii in the market.
lav or tier murriage forty
Much comfort was derived
upon the very
five years ago.
from iter assurance to the weeping ones
around her dying bed that she was ready
and willing to go. Whilst her daughter
frantife with grief from the terrible blow
she saw approaching prayed fervently und
eloquently that her mother might be ready,
she announced “I am ready, note."—-Fit
words with which to close so useful and
so happy a life. Fif answer to make to
the master’s summons, glorious testimony
to leave behind—comforting thought upon
which loved ones may dwell hereafter.
A. large concourse of relatives und friends
assembled in the church at Dublin on the
evening of tiie 2d inst. to pay the last tri
bute of respect to her remains. Her pas
tor attempted to console the bereaved fam
ily with the reflection that their loss is her
eternal gain. Her remains were deposited
in the village cemetery beside her three
children and near her two brothers, there
to await the voice of the arch-angel and the
trump of God.
Her loss will be deeply felt throughout
the entire community: it is a sad loss to
her circle of friends, a serious loss to the
church, lint an irreparable loss to the hus
band and children. We tender to them
our sincere sympathy and counsel them to
wulk in that good and accepted way which
she trod for ncarh* a life-time ami which
terminated so happily for her. We would
point them to the same Savior who com
forted our lost loved one in her many he
reavments, and who says to all wenry and
heavy laden ones, “Come, I will give you
rest.
Few pens could do justice to her char
acter or her virtues: conscious of our ina
bility We will not make tho attempt. But
leave this dear old mother in Isrenl asleep
in Jesus, praying that we may all bc^meet
settles upon us. R.
35 TONS NOW AT THE WHARF IM DUBLIN READY FORMIVERY.
The attention of the fanners of Laurens county is respectfully
invited to the fact, that I now have on hand a supply
of the above Excellent. Fertilizer, and would
he plouHod to have a call front all
who would like to purchase.
500 Pounds Cotton—Delivered free of Freight.
Call early on,
Dublin, apr!4-4t
Oil,
J"o©l '3EEL ID earn.;,
IML Xj. Joxl©8.
Macon,
SOUTHERN DEPOT.
STEAM ENGINES,
A. B. FABtyUllAR, York, P»„
Ohoapoatnnil bosk for all pur*
poses—.simple, Htronu, nnauu*
mb to. Also Traction Kn- £
tftnei for common rotula.
Saw, Oiustaxd Rich
Mills, Gins, Puhhskh
anpMaoiiinbry Ronor-
nlly. Inquiries promptly
mis won'il. .
. VorticalBngines.wiUi or without j
* wIiooIh, vory convent-
cut, coon'iralenl
lotolnevi
, . . bcft nnil
’ cheapest Vert* i
lent in tlio/
wirW.KlR.
\t Incnalnev
InuwJ.FIg.’
Tho Farquhar Separator
(Wurrantiul) J>' n 1lff1>|-
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Agricultural
• Works,
York, I'll.
Georgia
orrI ditnblf
•Implwt, iamt
economic 1
Mri Ptrfwl In
Keeps constantly in store a stock of Machinery of all kinds. At this
season we call your attention to our stock of
Grain Gradies, Weeding Hoes,
Dickson Sweeps, Farqulnir Swoops, &c.,
Which we offer very low to tint trade and country merchants.
Address, A. B. FAKQUHAR, Macon, Ga.
JK880F% NMTTH, Managers,
mur 10 78-4m _ . _ _
CLOTHING- sljol<3l HATS.
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No. 60 Second 8t Macon, Georgia,
Keep the Largest, and Best Stock of ('LOTIIING and IIATS for
men and hoys to he found in the State. HATS of all grades.
Keep partly inado Shirts, and Umbrellas very cheap.
m~oun goods a nit mmr-ci.Am and oun PHiojfs Tim lowKsr.jEt
WINSHIP & CAI .LA HA V.
mailt) 70-tf
MHH. M. K. MCVAY.
A. IS. CHOATK.
M‘VAY & CHOATE,
(Bueccssors to W. T. McVay.)
COCHBAW, • ; = • GEORGIA.
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have to-day entered Into partnership, and will continue tin: Warehouse ud
Mercantile mi
aisincsH of the old aud well known house of W. T. McVay u
the above Firm, Name and Style. M, 10, MCVAY,
A. Id. CHOATE
under
Wo ask a continuance of the patronugo so liberally given the House from your
County for the past flve years, and pledge ourselves to use every effort to make the
New Firm Worthy of Your Support.
Wo buy COTTON and all other FARM PRODUCE, and sell all classes of good*
except whiskey
WE AUK ALSO AQP.NT8 KOU A
scigkh: gkr_a.:d:e r’eh.tix.xzoer
IFfl-AT A LOW PRIOK jft
Cochran, Fehr'
McVAY Sc CHOATE.
ry 19, 1879-tf